Vulnerability · Published Jan 1, 2026 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-15412WebAssembly wabt wasm-decompile VarName out-of-bounds
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity out-of-bounds read in wabt from WebAssembly. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A security vulnerability has been detected in WebAssembly wabt up to 1.0.39. This issue affects the function wabt::Decompiler::VarName of the file /src/repro/wabt/bin/wasm-decompile of the component wasm-decompile. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds read. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. Unfortunately, the project has no active maintainer at the moment. In a reply to the issue report somebody recommended to the researcher to provide a PR himself.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | wabt | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-15412 |
| Debian:13 | wabt | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-15412 |
| Debian:14 | wabt | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-15412 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15412 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15412 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15412 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15412 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | wabt | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15412 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| WebAssembly | wabt | 1.0.01.0.11.0.21.0.31.0.41.0.51.0.61.0.7 |
Weakness: CWE-125, CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
References
- VDB-339333 | WebAssembly wabt wasm-decompile VarName out-of-bounds vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-339333 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #719826 | WebAssembly wabt 1.0.39 and master-branch Memory Corruption third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues/2678 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/oneafter/1208/blob/main/af1 exploit
- https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/ product